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Date: Thu, 3 Mar 2011 07:46:27 -0800
From: Nathan Froyd <froydnj@codesourcery.com>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] linux-user: bigger default stack
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To: Riku Voipio <riku.voipio@iki.fi>
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On Thu, Mar 03, 2011 at 05:37:37PM +0200, Riku Voipio wrote:
> PTHREAD_STACK_MIN (16KB) is somewhat inadequate for a new stack. follow
> the pthread_create defaults, ie setting to RLIMIT_STACK or if unlimited
> to 2MB.

For what sort oof cases is it inadequate?  This stack is just for QEMU's
usage and QEMU shouldn't be using very much.  The target thread could
use quite a bit of course, but that's handled elsewhere.

-Nathan